{"id":839,"date":"2015-08-15T06:53:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T06:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=839"},"modified":"2015-08-15T06:53:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T06:53:00","slug":"three-habbens-in-one-section-including-a-cancellation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=839","title":{"rendered":"Three Habbens In One Section-Including a Cancellation"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is one of the prime reasons for looking at the Bureau of Land Management Tract books in states where homesteading took place–cancelled homestead entries.<\/p>\n

Those who started the homestead process would have to had completed the same initial paperwork as someone who completed the process. For immigrants who homesteaded, this would have meant filing a copy of their naturalization papers.<\/p>\n

I already knew Benjamin Habben obtained a homestead near Weyerts, Nebraska (in section 32 of township 16 North 48 West). But a look at the tract book from the Bureau of Land Management indicated that he was not the only Habben to file a claim in that quartersection.<\/p>\n

The image below indicates the acreage of each parcel involved. Those with a working knowledge of land in federal land states will realize that this section has too many acres listed.<\/p>\n

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It doesn’t.<\/p>\n

Two of those 160 acre claims were cancelled. The ones for two homesteaders were not completed:<\/p>\n